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Can you believe it’s Monday, June 18th?! I’ve been graduated for over a month, I’m halfway done with my internship, and it’s already the third week of the Paleo challenge. Speaking of that, I had to subtract points for cheating for the first time since the start of the challenge. Saturday night, I had a glass of wine and Sunday I had wings… and they were pretty darn yummy.

But, I’m 100% back on track and didn’t feel too icky after divulging into non-Paleo goodies; I’m just proud I didn’t give into any of the homemade pies or cookie dough cupcake (what the f, YUM) that were at the Farmer’s Market. That place would be the ultimate place to get cheat food, take it home, curl up and nibble all day. Good thing I know that side effects and would have a week full of headaches, clothes that don’t fit, and constant trips to the porcelain throne.

Yesterday, I went to the gym and got to do a WOD with fellow beasts; they did 4 workouts but I peaced out after 1 so I could spend some more time with my boy before leaving again for the week. Here’s the one I did partnered with Molly:

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Bent knee good mornings (95, 105, 115, 120, 135, 145)

Ring Dips

Accessory movements:

GHR partner assisted 2 x 12

Hip extensions 1 x 30

Standing db throwbacks 3 x 12 @ 30#

If I wasn’t partnered with her, I probably wouldn’t have gone as hard! It’s so nice to have someone to work with and push you harder than normal, especially when it’s your older sister who you’ve been trying to catch up to since the old days at Muscle Corp. and playing hours of 1-on-1 basketball on the driveway!

The most exciting thing I did this weekend was REGISTER FOR MY CROSSFIT LEVEL 1 CERTIFICATION!!!!!!!! I wanted to do it before the end of 2012 and finally gave in and signed up. September 8th & 9th are going to be dates that I will never forget. What makes it better is that I get to go with 6 fellow CrossFit Instinct members – I. Cannot. Wait. I went to bed feeling excited, nervous, and happy with the decision I made.

Then my ‘beautiful’ iPhone harp alarm went of at 4am, letting me know that I need to get my @$$ up and go workout. I knew what I had coming because I woke up around midnight and checked the WOD for Fit Bodies. More hamstring work with overhead stuff… hellooooo triceps and legs! All I can say is that walking up the 3 flights of stairs to my apartment isn’t cool. Every step I feel like I’m going to fall backwards. Needless to say, carrying 10 bags full of veggies and meat up those stairs felt like a WOD.

After catching my breath and gathering myself, I spent 2 hours cooking! Thanks to Nelly radio on Pandora, it made things go a lot quicker.

So this was my attempt at making zucchini fritters… they didn’t come out very pretty or presentable. But, they taste awesome so that’s all that matters! I didn’t really measure anything too precisely but here’s what’s in them:

-6 small shredded zucchini

-1 red onion

-1/2 cup broccoli cabbage mix

-Cholula sauce

-3 eggs

-1/4ish cup coconut flour

-spices

This picture is only half of what it made… I am cooking for all week so now I have plenty!

Doesn’t this look like puke? Haha it looks disgusting, but is actually pretty good. I’m going to use it on meats and mix in with tuna and salmon. I will probably add other stuff to it too, like avocado or paleo mayo, depending on my food mood.

-almost a full bunch of Kale

– 1/2 can tomato sauce

-1 can green olives

-some olive oil & lemon juice

-spices

-almonds

This was basically to get rid of some things in my kitchen, so it’s trial and error with ingredients. I really just wanted to throw raw kale in the food processor and see what happened… and this happened. Puke-looking, um, Pesto?

My favorite! Paleo Mayo . This mixes with everything and can be tweaked into any flavor with some spices and imagination!

…and this is what happens when you get lazy scraping the mayo out of the food processor. I was sad that almost 2 tbsp. of my beloved mayo was now inedible and all over the floor. Grr.

I also cooked up some beets, eggs, and meat. Now all I have to do all week is eat. And I never ever have problems with that!

Having less ‘real’ school work has been amazing. People always told me to “cherish my time in college” because once I started working in the real world, I would want to go back in time. I have never been the I-love-school type of person; I like to work, especially when it’s something I’m passionate about. Even though I just graduated, I would not want to go back to daily classes, homework, tests, constant deadlines, and minimal income, if any (well, I’m still getting through that last part, but only a couple more months as an unpaid intern).

With that said, I have had more time to get more involved in the things I love – cooking, blogging, reading, having weekends with no homework (well, besides a weekly report due), and listening to some of my favorite audio. Do you know who Dr. Wayne Dyer is? You should. My mom introduced me to his work a few years back and things have totally changed for me. Since I have more time to actually listen to things while I’m not studying or homework, I’ve started becoming more aware of a number of things… and it feels lovely!

Here he is… Such a wonderful person.

Anyway, since most of my days start at 4am, I am back home around 3pm, at the latest. My internship supervisor is so cool and usually let’s us leave early, so some days I’m home around noon. On those days, I take advantage of it and head out to the pool for a bit to enjoy the rare warm weather of Illinois (and that fact that I can walk to the apartment pool!). When I’m not prepping or cooking food, writing papers, cleaning, or doing other fun things, I’m gathering music.

I’m obsessed with music. One of my nicknames (thanks to my sisters) is DJ C-Dub; come to find out, there actually is a real DJ C-Dub… that sucker stole my name! The past week, I have downloaded some monstrous songs and blasted them in my car and in my apartment. Wanna know what I listen to? Anything from Young Jeezy, Five Finger Death Punch, Skrillex, LMFAO, Chris Brown, Chevelle… then the soothing voice of Dr. Wayne Dyer. If people heard all this (maybe they do), they probably think I’m an ADD music-aholic. And they’re right.

I also just got on Spotify! Hooray!

I had a dream last night. A dream about cheating on the Paleo challenge. What’s wrong with me and dreams about eating bad food? I’m not even craving anything bad and am totally cool where I’m at. In the dream, I ate… get ready… jelly beans. Ew, seriously? That’s not even a food I would ever imagine slipping into a sugar coma for. Then I lied about it and didn’t write on my recording sheet that I cheated. I’m a lying jelly bean eater cheater. Can you tell I have an exciting life?

One thing that is exciting is that I love my internship and working with young athletes. There’s this one kid there (he’s probably 10 or so) who told me he was too tired to do anything because he was up late talking to his girlfriend on Facebook. He then continued to tell me that they talked about marriage and that he wants 3 or 6 kids. I thought it was pretty hilarious and kept egging him on, but it was kind of creepy how serious he was about everything.

Random facts of the day:

-Blueberries are my new obsession. Expensive, but worth it if you only eat them one at a time. I even brought them to a movie with me.

-There are killer pigeons that live outside of my window. And they sh*t on my car like there’s no tomorrow…. and it kind of looks like blueberries. Sick.

-My legs feel like they got beat with a bat while I was sleeping. Thank you deadlifts, front squats, and squat cleans.

-Paleo challenge. Almost 2 weeks down, 5 more to go. Then time for the most epic float trip ever!

That’s all. I have to go get ready to deal with these little athlete munchkins for the rest of the day!

Mark your calendars! Paleo season is in full swing! As I said in my last blog, tomorrow is the official beginning of CrossFit Instinct’s Paleo Challenge – I’m throwing on my animal hide 60 days of hunting meat, foraging vegetables, nibbling on little amounts of nuts and seeds, and getting full of radiant health. Okay, not that extreme but I’m excited to tackle another challenge. Being the overenthusiastic and slightly-OCD person I am, I decided today will be the first day I stay 100% Paleo. Simply, I have been allowing too many cheats into my mouth. They’re sneaky like that.

Last weekend, I gave into peer pressure and inhaled some ice cream (chocolate chip cookie dough and mocha almond crunch to be exact- and it was freaking awesome) and then had a food baby for 2 days. Later in the week, since I was already on a downward slope, I decided that some dark chocolate covered almonds would make me feel better. WRONG. The food baby appeared again. Once a month, sweet cravings take over me and I am under their power for a few painful days…

But now, I’m on track and even bought Melissa Joulwan’s cookbook, Well Fed, and it is awesome; tons of easy recipes and ways to tweak everything. I HIGHLY suggest her book if you need some Paleo-spiration. I also bought the iPhone App, Fast Paleo for even more ideas and more excuses for me not to slip up and end up in a carb-coma.

Here’s a picture of one of the things I already made… Chopping, cooking, and cleaning are always done best when listening to Skrillex Radio on Pandora (hence the title; Skrillex + Skillet = Skrillet). It automatically makes you go faster and bust out some dance moves! Good thing I live up high and people can’t see me… I think.

It’s so good and the veggies are good alone or dipped in paleo mayo. I usually add weird things (like hot sauce) to the mayo and use that as a dip for everything.

cauliflower Rice

Here’s some cauliflower rice before being cooked. This stuff is the $h!t. This is a full head and it makes about 3-4 cups and tastes like heaven with coconut aminos. I’ll be making a ton of this and upping my cauliflower intake for life!

Well I made more stuff and took more pictures but my computer decided to not upload them so I guess that’s all for now. Hopefully more to come later!

Do you hear that? Oh, that’s just the pool calling my name. Time to go get my dose of Vitamin D! 😀

Hi! Did you miss me? It’s been a while… big girl life has started to take over and just as I’m getting into the groove of my schedule, it’s going to all change starting Tuesday! Helloooo again to early mornings!

Well, one the most exciting weekends of the year is over – CrossFit Regionals. I got to watch two of my coaches compete and kick some CrossFit a$$! Watching beasts knock out some heavy weights and crazy WODs got the gears in my head turning again and now I have even more goals to add to my list. I would love to compete with a team there someday, maybe in two years…. Bottom line, I want to be a bada$$ beast like the girls there. It also was reassuring to see tall girls there… there’s hope!

Me and the man

Go Tim!!!!

Coach Tom!

AMEN!

I had a gazillion pictures and videos, but they didn’t do justice to seeing it all in person. Watching the top athletes do muscle-ups with ease and throw around big weights makes everything look easy. Then I remember how much hard work it takes and how much pain and time is put into it and it makes me want to grow up to be a CrossFit athlete. Screw work and everything else. Let’s WOD all day and play in the gym. Who needs all that other stuff?

Speaking of stuff, I bought more clothes. That means that almost 90% of my closet is stuffed with CrossFit related shirts… not to mention headbands and knee socks. I think I have more knee socks than regular socks… I have a problem.

So what did I do on the way home from the most motivating weekend ever?? Cheated. Me and Cole stopped at this small place and decided we deserved a small treat after three days of all-out cheering. We split some cheesy pub chips and then I got pulled pork and nibbled at a few baked beans. Have I mentioned that my body doesn’t agree with dairy? Cheese is the worst. We were only about an hour away from being home so when we were about 25 minutes away, it felt like I was getting stabbed in my stomach and I knew the cheese had hit. I learned my lesson. Then it started raining ungodly hard so it was not a fun drive the rest of the way home. Cheese + Caroline = sick. I won’t go into details, ha!

My body is still sore, thanks to my sister for writing me up a Westside Barbell workout to help build up my upper body strength.

I felt like a T-Rex when I was done. I had to drive back up to Bloomington right after this and holding the steering wheel felt terrible. Good thing I have knees that help drive =)

Know what else I found out I’m doing Saturday? COMPETING in a small competition. OMG I’m already nervous. I love competing but sometimes my nerves take over, so I figure that if I want to eventually make it to Regionals, I need to learn to stay calm. Hopefully they have on-sight bathrooms. Even though this is nothing like Regionals, you have to start somewhere right? But, it will be a blast so I’m excited!

Then that night is a 2-year CrossFit Instinct party! #pumpedcity. Let’s just say that there is probably going to be some drunken handstands, pullups, pistols, and other fun things involved. CrossFit people are so fun!

I’ll leave you with goals/timeline that my sister wrote on the CrossFit Instinct white board. Time to dial in and get serious!

Oh, and I got to see Chevelle in concert last night. A-freaking-mazing. They officially are my new favorite; I love them more than I already did. They sounded awesome. Be jealous.

WHOA. Where has the time gone?? These past 4 days have been so exciting and busy, they have literally flown by.

Wednesday was officially my last day of school and my last final; I was up nice and early to study since it was at 7:50am. It was also the day my sister had to defend her thesis and I was lucky enough to go watch all of her dedication and hard work pay off– she did an awesome job! Afterwards, we decided we needed to celebrate, true ISU style, and head over to The Pub. At 2:45pm. It was all downhill from there.

I had my first non-Whole30 item in 42 days! Beer. I can’t lie, it was mighty tasty. After sitting and chatting for a couple hours, we headed down to Medici, a little restaurant/bar in uptown, to meet with some of my sisters classmates and teacher. What’s the smartest thing to do after having pitchers of beer? A blueberry muffin martini. To put it lightly, this thing was nasty. And strong. The kind of strong where you get goosebumps and a twisted face after taking a sip.

After choking down that glass of blue grossness, we went back to The Pub and I thought I might as well keep switching things up and get some Vodka Lemonades. Mmm those were super good! If you’ve ever been to Normal and experienced The Pub on a Wednesday night, you know it gets crazy packed and full of college kids. Since there was nowhere for our big group to sit together, we headed to a friend’s apartment and started playing this stupid game. With beer. And I sucked bad at the game. All of that equals disgusting things.

My alcohol adventure

Let’s just say my night didn’t end pretty. I saw swiss chard and meatza in ways I never want to see them again. Ew.

As my sister said, at least I went out with a bang! Ha, funny because I woke up Thursday and felt like pure death. I felt paralyzed. I couldn’t even move out of bed for an hour; when I did, I moved to my couch and laid there. I somehow mustered up energy to take a shower and amazingly didn’t fall over. It might have been the worst 3 hours of my life. AND I had to start packing my apartment up that day. Ugh, it was a horrendous day to get through.

Friday was 100 times better because I actually worked out back at CrossFit Instinct! It was me, my sister, and a fellow female member (she’s going to Regionals yay!) and we did a partner-trio WOD-

Two people flipped a 205 lb. tire back and forth while the other person completed 10 KB swings (with a 70#!) and 30 double unders for a total of 10 min. I’ve never used a 70# KB in a WOD before and it was a monster! My forearms are still sore from that dang tire too! The other ladies did amazing and it was so fun to get a good workout in.

What’s even better is that my other sister drove back to ISU with me to celebrate me and my other sister’s graduations! It was such a fun night hanging out with both of them- I love having 2 older sisters who are my best friends! =)

<3<3<3

Saturday was moving/graduation day. I love how the apartment places make us move out by 5pm on graduation day… so nice. Thank God my sister was here to help me or I would have been SOL. Finally, graduation happened, we went out to dinner with my parents (yay!) and they took another load of my junk home. Moving is such a headache, but I’m lucky I moved into my sisters apartment while she’s away for the summer.

So that’s it. Tomorrow starts another chapter in life – the summer internship. We get to pay the school for a “class” so I can work for free for 12 weeks. Makes so much sense, right? What I am super excited for is this weekend… North Central CrossFit Regionals!!!!!!! Yay! I will be the best cheerleader in the crowd.

Ok, time to shower and chill. Went on a 90 minute bike ride for the first time in ages so I’m probably going to be sore in all the wrong spots tomorrow!

What is it about today? I’m going to get out all negativity right now:

-It’s depressing, cold, and cloudy outside

-It’s Tuesday

-I’m still sore from Friday (even after other workouts)

-School is annoying

-I’m still tired after a solid 8.5 hours of sleep. By solid I mean no-movement-I-woke-up-in-the-same-spot

-Hunger pains have been striking a lot lately

-Motivation is at an all time low

The bottom line says it all. The thing is that I don’t know why! Last week felt amazing and I was pumped to eat good and WOD hard. Now, this week has done a complete 180. Cravings are hard core and I feel like a lazy slug. If I had no self-control and real-life views on eating, I would go out and buy some candy, ice cream, popcorn, and other devastating cheat food and sulk in my laziness. Thankfully I know better and would feel sick for days if I indulged that bad.

Man, this is a real uplifting post, huh?

The thing is, today is day 28 and I thought I would be feeling on top of the world and super duper motivated to keep going… it couldn’t be more of the opposite. Aaaagggghhhh. Hopefully going to WOD in a couple of hours will help get me out of this annoying funk.

The one cool, superfun thing I am doing tonight??? My sister and I are going to go see Shrek live in Peoria! How awesome is that?!

Staying up a bit later than normal will totally be worth it. This will be a good break from my typical Tuesday night consisting of The Biggest Loser. I. Can’t. Wait. Weeeeee!

Know why I didn’t get a chance to write last night? Yep, I went to go see Titanic 3D. My sister and I went together since we aren’t going home for Easter; not exactly a “Holy Thursday” movie to see… nonetheless, it was very entertaining. When the first movie came out I was only 7 years old, so all I remembered was that I wasn’t allowed to see it and I knew that there were boobs shown (I was the shy little girl whose face got beet red if the word “boob” or “sex” was even mentioned). Even though I eventually watched the double VHS tapes that we bought, I don’t think I’d ever seen the entire movie at once.

I admit, my eyes got teary a couple of times, the hardest part of going to see the movie was trying to ignore the aroma of heavenly buttery popcorn. MMmm. Now, I usually don’t get popcorn (or even candy) when I go to the movies; pre-Whole30, I would have brought some trail mix. If going to the movies was going to be a cheat meal, I would have bought popcorn, Reese’s M&Ms, and a diet Coke. Now that’s a cheat.

Since I’m still Whole30-ing and it’s a 3-hour movie (and it was during my normal meal time), so I brought some olives and tea. Not quite the ideal replacement of a crisp Diet Coke and the salty/sweet mix of M&Ms and popcorn, but it worked. It also helped that my sister didn’t have anything to eat either. 🙂

Earlier in the day, I got to do one of my favorite types of WODs… a CHIPPER!

This WOD was so much fun, especially watching everyone else do so well; conquering those deads at the end was an awesome feeling! Unfortunately, I was rushed out due to a group project meeting I had to get to so you know what that means? I was a sweaty mess and had a hard time sitting still. And everyone at the coffee shop we met at got to see my lovely LifeAsRx knee socks – why can’t knee socks be “socially acceptable”? I usually wear them around after a WOD and get stared at like I’m walking around with a target on my back shins. Then I get asked, “Let me guess, you’re you a volleyball player? Basketball? Where’d you play?” Then it’s always me answering, “No, I only played basketball through high school. I just workout”. Ohhh if they only knew the half of what “workout” means -aka CrossFit. That’s a whole other topic. You tall girls can probably relate!

You know what talent I would like to have? The ability to booty shake like Nicki Minaj did on the Today Show. Not sure if that’s exactly a useful talent, but I think it’s pretty neat. Just for self-satisfaction, not like I’d do it for people. Maybe I can use it as a skill to work on, like muscle-ups.

Another interesting story? This lady claims she’s “too beautiful” and can’t wait until she starts to get wrinkles so people stop staring at her, giving her free stuff, and hating her for her looks. Seriously? SHUT UP. Supposedly, she’s not over-confident and her message got twisted, but come on…

Alright, enough jabber, time to get some homework, cleaning, and WODing done. The boyfriend comes up today so it’s going to be a great day! =)

Annoyance of the day/life: Goosebumps. I feel like I constantly have them besides when I’m working out. I wouldn’t mind them except the fact that it makes me have to shave 100 times more than normal. And the fact that when I get cold, my scars and lips turn blue. I want to move somewhere where it’s warm 24/7!!